Rangers 4-3 Marlins (Jun 22, 2026) Game Recap
MIAMI — — Brandon Nimmo had three hits and walked as soon as, Alejandro Osuna hit a go-ahead RBI double and the Texas Rangers beat the Miami Marlins 4-3 on Monday night time.
Ezequiel Duran homered and Joc Pederson singled twice for the Rangers within the opener of a 10-game highway journey.
The loss snapped the Marlins’ eight-game dwelling win streak.
For the second time in two weeks, the Tartan Army made its presence felt at a serious league recreation that featured the Rangers. Scotland followers are in Miami for the nationwide staff’s World Cup match towards Brazil on Wednesday and plenty of attended Monday’s collection opener bumping the attendance to twenty,008. The energetic environment within the stands, together with the favored chant, “No Scotland, No Party,” resembled the Rangers-Red Sox recreation at Fenway Park on June 14.
Nimmo doubled towards Marlins reliever Calvin Faucher (4-4) to guide off the eighth and Jake Burger adopted with a stroll. Osuna then hit a one-out line drive to proper that scored Nimmo and snapped a 2-all tie. Burger superior to 3rd and raced dwelling scored on Elias Diaz’s sacrifice fly.
Robby Ahlstrom (2-0) pitched an ideal seventh for the win.
The Marlins obtained to inside 4-3 on Kyle Stowers’ run-scoring double towards Jacob Latz within the eighth. Latz retired Jakob Marsee on a groundout with the bases loaded to finish the eighth then pitched the ninth for his 14th save.
Duran put Texas on the board with a two-run blast towards Miami starter Tyler Phillips within the fourth earlier than Miami narrowed it to 2-1 on Javier Sanoja’s sacrifice fly within the fifth.
Xavier Edwards hit a tying RBI triple within the sixth. He tried to stretch the triple into an contained in the park dwelling run however was thrown out on the plate by shortstop Duran’s relay throw from brief left area.
Phillips allowed two runs and 5 hits over six innings.
The collection opener additionally featured the return of former Marlins supervisor Skip Schumaker. Now managing the Rangers, Schumaker guided the Marlins for 2 years earlier than resigning following the 2024 season. In Schumaker’s first season, the Marlins clinched a post-season berth and have been eradicated by Philadelphia within the NL Wild Card spherical.
The Rangers haven’t introduced a starter for Tuesday whereas RHP Sandy Alcantara (7-4, 4.18 ERA) will begin for the Marlins.
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